Be Excellent To Each Other

Seriously - RSS. Webcomics were designed for it, or vice versa. There's probably even a service out there that will e-mail you RSS updates, although that's frankly like printing your e-mail to read it.



The author just stopped doing it, abruptly. He released a collected volume (the Trial of Colonel Sweeto), got lots of media attention, then (from what I could tell) decided he was in danger of being a sell-out, so he stopped.

I used to read a lot of Sinfest in the past, but got a bit bored with the whole hepcat and slut thing.

It's excellent. Apparently Jim Davis is a fan, too.

For the unfamilar, take Garfield comics and edit out Garfield and Odie - you're left with the strange, bipolar world of Jon Arbuckle:



Then there's the ones where you think Jim Davis must have known what was going on:



There's actually a whole fascinating world of Post Modern Garfield out there - prior to G-G there was a project on Dinosaur Comics which kept Garfield in the frames, but removed all his thought bubbles, which was almost as good. There's also Fatal Farm's utterly bizarre Lasagna Cat.

Garfield stopped being funny in about 1986, but the web has made it funny again.

Yeah, I like the removing the thought bubbles one.

I quite enjoy Indexed (found via xkcd), and Savage Chickens

Me too. Also, Get Your War On and My New Fighting Technique is Unstoppable.

Forget about Garfield Minus Garfield - Dilbert Minus Dilbert is where it's at.

I like the comment 'I feel a meme coming on'.

Not a webcomic at all, but 'Red vs Blue' used to tickle my funny bone.

They've got a new series now.

I never got round to watching more than the first three of RvB, but some of it was genius. The episode where two of them get transported into an XBox Live match of Halo 2 is awesome.

Even the comments for the Lasagne Cat video are funny, if only because someone not only misses the point but seems to get was over excited about a Garfield strip : -

"My favorite Garfield comic was from October 1994, and it had Garfield going into a panic over what was on the rug that nearly got Jon into a sudden shock thank to him, when all Garfield could say at the end was how it was probably lint.

I LOVED THAT ONE THE MOST^^ "

Speaking of webcomics...

I can highly recommend this one. It's a bit wordy, but usually worth it.

http://www.viruscomix.com/subnormality.html

I like Return to Sender, but the author isn't doing it any more, so don't read it if you don't like stories that, er, don't have an ending.

Here is a list of the webcomics on my RSS feed. I would add links but i'm really fucking lazy...

GU Comics - Okay for a single pane gaming related comic, I hardly read this to be honest.
Ctrl+Alt+Del - Used to be great, lost its way in the past couple of years but I still check up on it once in a while.
Dilbert - Nuff said.
Explosm.net - Mostly funny, sometimes really funny, sometimes awful. Completely dependent on who did the strip that day, but always completely tasteless... (the strip is actually called something else, but I can't remember and i'm at work at the moment so can't check.)
Penny Arcade - The quintessential gaming comic.
PvP - I find the author a bit of a twat, but the comic is usually funny.
Sinfest - Another one that used to be great but is a bit formulaic these days.
VG Cats - if they ever release a new comic...
XKCD - Geeky humour at it's very best.
Mal and Chad - A Calvin and Hobbes ripoff, I infrequently read this, mainly due to being a huge C&H fan and this is the closest thing.
Dark Legacy - Used to be funny when I played WoW, less funny these days as I no longer play
Questionable Content - Great, just great
The Perry Bible Fellowship - Only updated once in a very blue moon, but always funny.

http://www.thezombiehunters.com is most excellent.

Trooper - I agree the Mighty'Fest has gone downhill over the last couple of years, sadly. The early stuff is beyond awesome, though.

Oh man, how did we miss this line last time round?

Oh my. That is such a good line.

Totally passing that off as my own in a pub at some point.

I have just got up to date with The Trenches. It's about a software tester.

Starts here: http://trenchescomic.com/comic/post/9811

It's rather good.

It's alright, although it would be better if it was just the Penny Arcade guys on their own as Scott Kurtz is a cock.

Looking at it again reminds me that the archive of stories of development hell from real people attached to that site is pretty entertaining. Although it does come with a side-effect of making you feel utterly complicit in a machine that fucking eats people alive, which is a bit unpleasant.

While I'm here there's a new-ish webcomic called Crossed: Wish You Were Here. It's one of a number of stories set in a universe where a sort of zombie plague has ravaged the world; this story following a group of survivors who've taken refuge on a Hebridean island. The original Crossed story was a Garth Ennis creation so it's pretty 'adult' stuff; especially as the way the plague in question affects people is to turn them into violent, sadistic, sex obsessed thrill-seekers which the artist does not shy away from showing in detail. Pretty much everyone in the story is a horrible dick in their own way, not least the narrator, so there's an element of actually hoping they get killed even while following their lives. It's nothing revolutionary but it's well written with a suitably bleak humour to it and the art is very good so it's worth checking out.